Zoe York > Quotes

“Of course there had been clues. A bite of the lip. An indrawn breath. Wrinkled brows and shrugged shoulders. A few false starts at conversations about work and balance, but the real alarms should have gone off when all of that faded.
Silence chilled like nothing else.”
― Zoe York, Between Then and Now

“Forgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past. You won't be able to forgive yourself for not doing things differently until you stop wishing things were different”
― Zoe York, Love on a Spring Morning

“If she’d had any doubts he was a real deal country boy, they disappeared when he unabashedly stripped down to nothing—the sun had kissed his arms to mid-bicep, although his torso wasn’t without a faint tan. She’d thought lazily that maybe he had a pond. She’d like to go skinny dipping with him. Leap onto his back and wrap her legs around his lean hips. Hold on to his broad shoulders and press her naked breasts into his back and drift into the cool water together.
As he opened his button-fly jeans, revealing snug briefs underneath, she’d whispered for him to stop. He was hard and sinewy in all the right places, with shadows and valleys she wanted to explore with her mouth and hands and eyes, but her touch first went to the line where dark faded to light on his arm, neatly following the curve of his muscles. “Nice farmer’s tan.”
― Zoe York, Between Then and Now

“There weren't any promises of a future life together, either, but he didn't need to live like a monk anymore. Two years was more than enough time for soul-searching and penance. As long as Laney was close enough to touch, to breath in, to taste like his goddamn last meal, he would take whatever she offered and not ask any questions about what it might cost him when she inevitably left.”
― Zoe York, What Once Was Perfect

“What are you, some kind of superhero?” “Nah, I’m just a guy who sometimes kicks ass for Uncle Sam.” “Okay,” she whispered. “So…just so you know, that’s superhero material in my book.”
― Zoe York, Fall Away

“She'd just had the best sex of her life, with an ex-boyfriend she'd spent the last decade pretending didn't exist, in his adorable half-finished, renovating-by-himself one room schoolhouse. Unsettled wouldn't even begin to describe how Laney should be feeling, and it didn't matter, because how she actually felt was pretty damn good.”
― Zoe York, What Once Was Perfect

“Don’t cry over me, Liv, I’m not worth it.” “You like to pretend you’re so tough.” She smiled, a delicate, shaky curl of her lips. “How about you don’t cry over me, okay?” He lifted their hands, still gripped together, and kissed her knuckles. “You’re totally worth my tears, baby.”
― Zoe York, Love in a Small Town

“Do you know how to use power tools?” He frowned at her. “Gaby, I’m a Navy SEAL. I am a power tool.”
― Zoe York, Fall Away

“head,”
― Zoe York, Hometown Hope

“I didn’t know you were my everything. I didn’t know I could have the worst day possible on the job and my only thought be of you. You deserve someone else, someone who’s smart enough to know all of that from day one, but I’m selfish. I want you all to myself, forever. And I’ll do whatever it takes to show you every single day that I love you more than anything else in the world. More than my job. More than my pride.”
― Zoe York, Love in a Small Town

“week. That she looked forward to those mornings…well, that wasn’t great either. But Rafe worked two jobs and lived in a tiny one-room apartment. And the other option for eggs and bacon”
― Zoe York, Love in a Small Town

“morning a week with her ex-mother-in-law. So she couldn’t fault Rafe for keeping his regular stool at the diner she worked at, even if it”
― Zoe York, Love in a Small Town

“mornings…well, that wasn’t great either. But Rafe worked two jobs and lived in a tiny one-room apartment.”
― Zoe York, Love in a Small Town

“verklempt”
― Zoe York, What Once Was Perfect

“them, together, in an orgasm-fest for the ages. What happened Friday morning could not be repeated. Not when she’d made up her mind”
― Zoe York, Love in a Small Town

“Jake Foster gave his brother Matt a scathing glare. If one of them needed to do anything, it was Matt, and the thing was grow up. “Let’s just get Sean and drag him home before”
― Zoe York, Love in a Snow Storm

“weeks ago to find the house next to hers no longer vacant. Her standard welcome-to-the-street spiel”
― Zoe York, Where Their Hearts Collide

“Rafe wasn’t the oldest son. That privilege fell to his older brother Zander, who’d gotten the hell out of Dodge at eighteen.”
― Zoe York, Love in a Small Town

“Buddhist quote. ‘Forgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past.’ You won’t be able to forgive yourself for not doing things differently until you stop wishing things were different.”
― Zoe York, Love on a Spring Morning

“The other series where I stumbled is SEALs Undone, which despite that has done pretty well.”
― Zoe York, Romance Your Brand: Building a Marketable Genre Fiction Series

“Write the most commercial story of your heart.”
― Zoe York, Romance Your Brand: Building a Marketable Genre Fiction Series

“The next step is to rework that pitch into a blurb that ends on a hard tease, that makes a reader one-click because they simply must know what happens next. Create questions they cannot walk away from, and make them buy your book. Don’t worry if it doesn’t look like back cover copy “should.” The only thing that matters is if it resonates with readers in the audience you are targeting. And if it doesn’t? Try again.”
― Zoe York, Romance Your Brand: Building a Marketable Genre Fiction Series

“along the perimeter with the rest of their team. They’d been orbiting Midgard”
― Zoe York, A Viking's Peace

“They hadn’t had much of a chance to talk about work before Jake and Matt showed up. That led to a re-cap of Thursday night’s trip to Lion’s Head. Matt’s version of events cast Rafe in the weeniest of lights, of course. “This dude had a hot chick crawling all over him, and he couldn’t even get it up.” “Fuck you, asshole, see if I’m ever willing to be your wingman again.” Rafe flipped his friend the bird before grabbing another handful of chips. They were on Dean’s deck, in his backyard, which overlooked Rafe’s old backyard. Now just Liv’s. After the kiss-that-wasn’t-a-kiss-but-was-a-whole-lot-more yesterday, Rafe had a plan. Well, more of a pipe dream than a plan. He wanted Liv back. She was working tonight. Otherwise he’d just hop the fence and try again. And even though he’d had a nap, he wasn’t truly well rested, which he’d need, because he figured that between him admitting he wanted her back and actually getting her back”
― Zoe York, Love in a Small Town

“Let’s call this the Netflix Test. Could your World be turned into a TV series? If not, why not? That can be a significant difference between Series 1.0 and Series 2.0 (see Chapter Twenty-one for my thoughts on Series 2.0).”
― Zoe York, Romance Your Brand: Building a Marketable Genre Fiction Series

“NOTHING said unnecessary”
― Zoe York, Love in a Snow Storm

“... if you can't win over a man with a great push-up bra, then you needed to wear it while serving a fantastic meal.”
― Zoe York, A Navy SEAL for Christmas

“He slid into the booth with a sigh.”
― Zoe York, Love in a Small Town

“pulled out her phone and checked her email for the”
― Zoe York, Small Towns, Big Dreams: Romance Starter Set

“Why was she the only person whose idea of getting one’s freak on consisted of staying up late and spending too much money on Etsy? Well,”
― Zoe York, Ruined by the SEAL